Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Normative
ethics
- also called
prescriptive
- seeks to establish
norms or criteria to
determine criteria to
determine which
behaviors, values,
norms, institutions,
etc. can be considered
correct or just from a
moral point of view.
- consists of
formulating
moral judgments
and finding a way
to justify how to
justify them.
- can be
considered
morally right
or just.
- CHARACTERISTICS
- IMPORTANCE
- Oorient people's
conduct toward
the common
good.
- Promotes good
living in society
- RELATIONSHIP
WITH OTHER
DISCIPLINES
- No discipline can renounce the
investigation of its theoretical
foundations or the explanation of the
meaning of its fundamental expressions.
- to be continued in
metaethics
- project concrete norms of more
immediate application proper to
applied ethics.
- developing
and
defending
some
conception
of the ideal
person
- promotes
self-control in
different areas
- Normative ethics
reflects on what is
morally right and
why.
- Objectives towards
moral facts, as the
target of moral
evaluations about
property or action.
- Optimization of interests or
stakeholders (preference), utilitarian,
happiness (eudaimonia), or welfare
ethics
- TYPES OF NORMATIVE
ETHICS
- Theories of Virtue
- Deontological Theories
- Consequentialist Theories
- Specify and defend
some thing or list of
things that are
good in themselves.
- The law of love is a
deontological
principle: it is a law
- Establishes formal or
relational criteria such as
fairness or equality.
- an action is considered
morally good because
of some characteristic
of the action itself,
- not because
the product of
the action is
good
- Those actions that
would be performed
by a perfectly
virtuous agent
- seeks to explain3 the
nature of a moral agent as a
motivating force for ethical
behavior.
- performs well or appropriately
- Utilitarianism
- Contractarianism
- Deontology
- falls within the domain of
moral theories that guide
and assess our choices of
what we ought to do
- the ability to use
reason was what
defined a person.
- there are two different kinds of
ethical duties, perfect duties and
imperfect duties.
- refers to a type of moral or
political theory that employs
the idea of contract
- The contract involved can be
either actual or hypothetical
depending on the particular
contractarian theory
- actions are right if
they are useful or
for the benefit of a
majority.
- is that the prevention or elimination
of suffering should take precedence
over any alternative act that would
only increase the happiness of
someone already happy
- is an effort to provide an
answer to the practical
question “What ought a
person to do?”